Chapter 47: Zhu Yuan is Exposed

Li Jie is in trouble?

"What do you mean? Isn't Li Jie on vacation?" Zhu Yuan looked at the others in the dressing room.

They were all discussing Li Sha's situation. Hearing Zhu Yuan's question, they turned their heads one after another, "Xiao Fengzheng, you're back. Have you heard that Li Jie is in trouble too?"

Several people gathered around Zhu Yuan, all with grave expressions, and said to her, "Actually, Li Jie wasn't really on vacation these past few days. She offended some big shot, and they wouldn't allow her to perform on stage anymore. It's no different from being blacklisted."

Blacklisted?

When they said this, Zhu Yuan's first reaction was Sheng Yu.

Could it be that the time Li Jie tripped her on stage, Sheng Yu saw it and took action to teach Li Jie a lesson?

But that wasn't the most important thing right now.

"What exactly happened?"

The so-called "trouble" was definitely not as simple as being blacklisted.

"Li Jie had been depressed at home for many days. Yesterday, she finally went out to clear her head, but she was kidnapped on the way to the Airport."

"Kidnapped in broad daylight?" Zhu Yuan frowned.

Li Jie was very famous in the circle, and many people inside and outside the circle knew her; she counted as a public figure. Furthermore, the outside world knew that the big boss behind the theater troupe had a deep background.

Who would dare to kidnap her in the street?

The others nodded in agreement, "Yes, it was indeed kidnapped in broad daylight. She was dumped outside the Airport this morning. People say she was disheveled."

That person lowered their voice: "There were many bruises on her body, as if she had been violently assaulted. She was delirious and has already lost her mind."

For some reason, a chill ran down Zhu Yuan's spine for no apparent reason.

She felt that this matter was not simple.

"Where is the troupe leader?" she asked.

She remembered that it was rumored everywhere in the troupe that the troupe leader and Li Jie had an unusual relationship.

Could he just ignore it when such a big thing happened?

The people in the dressing room shook their heads with deep apprehension, not daring to utter a single word.

Zhu Yuan understood roughly.

The person who could kidnap Li Sha and do such a thing must have great power. To the powerful, the position of troupe leader was like an ant that could be easily crushed.

To protect himself, the troupe leader dared not make a scene and chose silence.

Although Zhu Yuan sighed at the coldness of human relationships, Li Sha had set her up many times; such a person was not worth sympathizing with, and it had nothing to do with her.

"The troupe leader can't be counted on. I just don't know if the big boss behind the scenes will handle this," said one of the older men.

A young girl beside Zhu Yuan asked in confusion, "What kind of background does the big boss have, anyway?"

"None of us have ever seen the big boss."

Before long, the troupe leader appeared in the dressing room, his face cold and stern as he urged everyone, "Don't talk about things that don't concern you. Go and rehearse!"

When Zhu Yuan passed by him, he wanted to pat her on the shoulder, but remembering something, he hurriedly pulled his hand back, "Xiao Fengzheng, our troupe will rely on you from now on."

Zhu Yuan didn't know how to respond to this, "Troupe leader, I'll go to rehearsal first."

Influenced by the incident with Li Sha, everyone was clearly not in the right state of mind during the morning rehearsal, and Zhu Yuan was also somewhat absent-minded and uneasy.

……

Sheng Group, Chairman's Office.

Sheng Hongyao sat in the executive chair, holding a cigarette in his hand, repeatedly watching a surveillance video on the computer screen.

Assistant Jiang stood by his side, his voice sinister, "Chairman, no matter how our people interrogated Li Sha, she said it had nothing to do with Young Master Yu. She is greedy for life and afraid of death, yet she still won't admit it. It seems it's true; she isn't one of Young Master Yu's people."

"Li Sha."

Sheng Hongyao murmured, repeating Li Sha's name, his eyes filled with shadows.

He stared at the surveillance video on the screen; it was the video from the third floor of the cruise ship that night after Sheng Yu appeared.

Assistant Jiang placed the investigated information by Sheng Hongyao's hand, "This is the list and background of the actresses we have screened one by one."

Sheng Hongyao bit his cigarette and picked up the information to flip through it casually, but there was no useful information.

He threw the stack of papers on the table, his gaze sweeping fiercely over a stunningly beautiful face in the surveillance video, and his finger pressed the pause button.

"Have you checked Zhu Yuan?"

Assistant Jiang was stunned, "No, she is Lu Huaizhan's fiancée. Lu Huaizhan is Young Master Yu's good brother. A rabbit doesn't eat the grass by its own burrow; how could Young Master Yu..."

Sheng Hongyao snorted coldly, and Assistant Jiang immediately shut his mouth.

"He is my son; I know his temper. In this world, apart from those who gave birth to him and those he gave birth to, as long as it is a woman he wants, no matter what her status is, he will definitely get her."

How could he possibly care about the mere status of a good brother's fiancée?

What's more, Lu Huaizhan is dead.

Assistant Jiang broke out in a cold sweat in horror.

He looked at the screen in front of Sheng Hongyao.

Sure enough, the moment Sheng Yu appeared on the third floor of the cruise ship, the others had expressions of fear and terror, but only Zhu Yuan's expression was grave, as if she were worried.

If the relationship were merely that of a good brother's fiancée, it shouldn't look like this.

It is estimated that Zhu Yuan never thought that a surveillance video would expose her.

Sheng Hongyao stubbed out the burning cigarette in the ashtray and chuckled coldly, "Sheng Yu was so furious that day and still didn't want to expose her. It seems this Zhu Yuan carries some weight in his heart."

"As long as we seize Zhu Yuan, we won't have to worry about not being able to control Young Master Yu," Assistant Jiang chimed in from the side.

Sheng Hongyao narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Go to the Theater and invite this Miss Zhu."

……

Zhu Yuan was rehearsing on stage when the troupe leader suddenly came over to call her.

"Xiao Fengzheng."

Zhu Yuan said a word to her companion and walked over quickly, wiping sweat as she went, "What is it, Troupe Leader?"

The expression on the Troupe Leader's face turned sycophantic for a moment, as if Li Sha's accident hadn't affected him at all.

"Xiao Fengzheng, come with me quickly, someone wants to see you."

Zhu Yuan was stunned, "See me?"

The Troupe Leader nodded.

Because Li Sha had just had an accident, Zhu Yuan felt a bit more vigilant; she instinctively felt that the person who wanted to see her was not Sheng Yu, "Troupe Leader, who wants to see me? I'm in the middle of rehearsing, and I have to go on stage this afternoon."

The Troupe Leader clicked his tongue, "You'll know when you go, it won't take long, and besides, it's not like you aren't familiar with this play; it's fine even if you don't rehearse."

Zhu Yuan was pushed by the Troupe Leader toward the VIP room on the second floor.

She remembered that the people who could rest in the VIP room were from the Kyoto Five Great Families.

The only people from the Kyoto Five Great Families she knew were Sheng Yu and Yuan Fengye, and Yuan Fengye certainly wouldn't be looking for her.

Could her intuition be wrong, and it really was Sheng Yu?